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If India has to grow at 8%, my state has to grow beyond 10%. To achieve that, I would have to do two major things - (improve) infrastructure and the ease to do business . In 15 days, I have cleared two metro routes on 70 km in Mumbai. I have also started work on the coastal road which can help relieve congestion on the Western Expressway. We have initiated clearances and notification of the trans harbour link, which is being planned for the past 30 years. The road will connect Mumbai to Navi Mumbai, decongesting Mumbai.

NEW DELHI: Digital media and consumer internet incubator Ant Farm has acquired online food delivery venture Meals on Wheels, a departure for the Mumbai-based start-up platform which has traditionally built companies from the ground up. Industry experts pegged the deal at Rs 11 crore-Rs 14 crore. While the start-up incubator did not disclose the financial details, this is Ant Farm's second acquisition of the year, after it acquired performance driven marketing network ClickZoot in August earlier this year.

MUMBAI: Mumbai-based financial services company Centrum Capital has teamed up with the former head of property fund Indiareit Ramesh Jogani to form a real estate private equity joint venture company, India Property Advisors (IPAL), which will soon launch its first offering — the Mumbai Residential Opportunity Fund. The maiden offering, with a size of Rs 250 crore and a green-shoe option of Rs 100 crore, will seek to tap the opportunities arising from wide differences in pre-launch prices of new projects in Mumbai compared to the completed apartments.

LAHORE: A new anti-terrorism court judge has been appointed to conduct the trial of seven Pakistani suspects in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks after seven of his predecessors were transferred, hampering speedy trial of the case. The case has now been transferred to Anti-Terrorism Court, Islamabad Judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi who will resume the proceedings on October 29, according to a notification issued by judicial authorities. The last two hearings on October 15 and 22 could not be held after Judge Attiquer Rehman of Anti-Terrorism Court Rawalpindi, who had been conducting the trial of Mumbai terror accused for a year, was transferred.

NAGPUR: A group of 34 newly elected MLAs of BJP from Vidarbha today left here for Mumbai in a chartered flight to attend a key meeting of the party. These legislators are from Nagpur, Wardha, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, Bhandara, Gondia Amravati and Yavatmal districts. The MLAs assembled at the BJP regional office here and later flew to the state capital, party sources said. They were accompanied by MLC Anil Sole. Another batch of BJP MLAs from Akola, Washim and Buldana districts flew to Mumbai from Akola, they said.

NEW DELHI: After losing the centre of political power last May, the Congress leadership is now resigned to a critical 'power-cut' in India's financial capital too. For India's Grand Old Party, life without power in Delhi and clout in the headquarters of wealth, the unavoidable lubricant of power-politics, can pose many occupational hazards amid its worst electoral meltdown. The exit polls projecting a rout for Congress in Maharashtra, a state which it ruled along with NCP for the past 15 years, did not come as a surprise to anyone at the party's Akbar Road headquarters.

MUMBAI: Approximately 25 per cent of the 1.01 crore voters in Mumbai cast their votes till 1 PM today. As many as 519 candidates are in the fray for 36 constituencies in the country's financial capital. Mumbai city recorded a turnout of 21 per cent while suburbs saw approximately 26 per cent electorate exercising their franchise till 1 PM, as per the figures available with the State Electoral Office. The city and suburbs witnessed brisk to moderate turnout since morning. Till 11 AM, the highest voter turnout of 24.49 per cent was registered in Goregaon while the lowest was 5.12 per cent in Mumbadevi.

MUMBAI: The appeal to Mumbai voters by Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to have worked, with the financial capital registering an increase in voting percentage, compared to Lok Sabha elections five months ago. "Voter turnout, which was a dismal 48 per cent for the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year, has improved and was around 55 per cent in the 36 Maharashtra Assembly constituencies in the island city and suburbs," an official said....

By Chaitanya Kalbag I was chatting with my barber in Gurgaon when I realised that Narendra Modi and the hundreds of other politicians campaigning in the Haryana and Maharashtra assembly elections were not uttering the P word. Salman, the young hair-cutter, said he was the second of nine children of a sepoy in the Indian Army - the lowest rank. There was so little money, the young man said, that his family could not even afford the ten or twenty rupees it cost to send a child to a government school.

PUNE: There is no change in the BJP policy supporting creation of smaller states for faster development and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement rejecting division of Maharashtra was in the context of Mumbai, Union Law Minister Ravishankar Prasad said today. Asked whether Modi's remark in response to the Shiv Sena's allegation that BJP was planning to divide the state amounted to a shift in the party's stand supporting a separate Vidarbha, he told reporters here that the Prime Minister's statement should be seen in the context of Mumbai.